Glasgow Film Festival review: Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson has made a career out of telling shaggy dog stories in artfully designed fashion so it’s only natural he should make that impulse literal with stop-motion animated canine epic Isle of Dogs. Opening this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, the Japan-set tale finds Anderson filtering the work of Akira Kurosawa, Katsushika Hokusai and Studio Ghibli through his own idiosyncratic gaze to create a dazzling futuristic dystopian fable in which man’s best friend has been banished by a cat-loving mayor following an outbreak of canine flu.